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( U3 a3 m) L$ w& p+ VMany people already immune
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/ N7 b3 J% u6 |! `4 V/ x) e: H" \Dr. Jim Dickinson, head of the Alberta Influenza Surveillance Team, said many aspects of the virus are still unknown, including why it is continuing to infect Canadians in the summer when the flu normally slows.+ j9 q Q! ~9 n; S0 U8 y& Y) d
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"It could get worse or it may not because quite a lot of people in the community now have already had this, many with hardly any illness at all," he said Friday.' S( J- P$ t$ w, [: D& m
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"So many people are already immune to this disease by now. So maybe it might die out in the fall or it might get a whole lot worse and, unfortunately, we can't predict that."
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F% c3 i' k9 E5 {Dickinson estimated as many as 100,000 Albertans have already had swine flu and didn't realize it.
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"For the vast majority of people it is mild, and we shouldn't lose sight of that. While it is affecting a few people, for the vast majority of people, it is really no different than any of the other flus. But what we need to do is find out who gets it bad and why."
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Alberta is hoping to have a vaccination for H1N1 ready by the end of October, with priority given to those with chronic illnesses and to babies.
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( y: ~/ g$ n! tOf the 37 total H1N1-related deaths reported in Canada, 90 per cent of the victims had an underlying medical problem, Canada's public health agency said Friday. There have been more than 1,200 reported H1N1 cases in Alberta. |
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